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The highly anticipated Uncharted 3 aiming patch has arrived. As detailed on the official Naughty Dog website, the patch adds an “alternate aim” setting in the options menu, fixes the missing motion blur in single-player, and adds a cutscene viewer.
Uncharted 3 – Patch 1.02
Single Player
General
- Movie cutscene viewer added (in the Bonuses menu, Single-Player only)
Technical
- Fixed the missing Motion Blur effects (for Single Player only)
- “Alternate Aim Settings” added to the Options menu under Camera options (for Single Player only)
Multiplayer
General
- Settings bug fixed: all controls being set to flipped mode setting will no longer change all controls back to default
Gameplay
- Medal streaks won’t reset if the host migrates to another user
- Blindfire targeting adjusted so that opposing players past a certain vertical angle above and below won’t be hit.
- Allow grenade throw while scoped
- Tuned Pull Down range from 1.5 meters to 2.0 meters
- Lowered the player running speed when players run ‘n gun by approximately 15%
- Slightly increased the turn radius of run ‘n gun
- Slightly decreased the turning speed during Sprint
Technical
- Fixed an infrequent hunter spawning issue in Hunter Arena when the match round switches
- Fixed several cinema crashes
- Locked fast-forwarding on convoy sequence in Airstrip TDM and train sequence on London Underground TDM to 3x maximum in Cinema Mode
- Fixed certain cameras in Kick Offs and Pull Downs
- Fixed a late join skin bug with locked content
- Fixed a split-screen Buddy treasure pickup bug
- Fixed duplicate medal problem causing bad tabulation of a few medals to the player’s career stats
User Interface
- Objective points now show up in the player’s Competitive statistics tab instead of the Cooperative statistics tab
- Added a Facebook Sign Out option
- Added the Add Friend functionality in the Facebook tab
- Fixed voice icon for mics not appearing in Matchmaking lobby
- Adding missing weapon stats tracking for certain weapons that were not being recorded to the player stats
- Fix for not displaying the entire Online ID within the “Players” column of any leaderboard.
- Fix for a user having an online ID containing fifteen or more characters created in uppercase format and actively using a voice comm device.
Server
- Matchmaking now waits for double the number of players in the biggest party in the room to be present before starting a game (to prevent parties from being split frequently)
- Players no longer able to join party that is already in Matchmaking
Early impressions from users posting impressions on various gaming forums are very positive, with many gamers claiming the aiming now feels like it does in Uncharted 2. Response to the fixed motion blur has also been good, with many claiming the game now looks even better than it did before.
Find out why you should be playing Uncharted 3 in our Uncharted 3 review.
